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CVE-2015-9251

Published: 18 January 2018

jQuery before 3.0.0 is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks when a cross-domain Ajax request is performed without the dataType option, causing text/javascript responses to be executed.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
fix is intrusive and backwards-incompatible, see bug 3011
Due to this, we will not be fixing this issue in Ubuntu stable
releases. Marking as ignored.

Priority

Low

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.1

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
jquery
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Not vulnerable
(3.1.1-2)
bionic Not vulnerable

cosmic Not vulnerable

disco Not vulnerable

eoan Not vulnerable

focal Not vulnerable

trusty Ignored

upstream
Released (3.1.1-1)
xenial Ignored

Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/jquery/jquery/commit/f60729f3903d17917dc351f3ac87794de379b0cc

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.1
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Changed
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N